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chez

American  
[shay] / ʃeɪ /

preposition

French.
  1. at or in the home of; with.


chez British  
/ ʃe /

preposition

  1. at the home of

  2. with, among, or in the manner of

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As now is often the case chez Disney, the meta-story here is more interesting than the film, which isn’t very good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

Many of the same disasters happen chez Darling as happened at Haversham Manor, or close variations on them.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2023

Rebecca Solnit attended a December holiday shindig at chez Freeman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2018

The suggestion that Jay-Z and Beyoncé came up with the album’s narrative together appeals, if only because of the imagined dinner-table conversations chez Carter-Knowles.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2016

The only trouble was that people who did not fall into any of those three categories were very liable to be told there was no one home, chez Barnes.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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